books.google.com - The Japanese sword combines unbreakability, rigidity, and lethal cutting power, and it is in the resolution of these conflicting practical requirements that it emerges as a triumph of the forger's art. The mystique of the sword lingers on in our age of mechanized combat, but the aesthetic qualities for...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Japanese_Sword.html?id=vFS2iT8QjqEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Japanese Sword